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Mobile Photography – Instagram TAKEOVER with @coeiphoneart – Gerry Coe from Belfast, UK – Days 13 and 14

19/03/201819/03/2018 by Joanne Carter

Wow!!! What an incredible fortnight it has been with @coeiphoneart – Gerry Coe taking over our Instagram feed! His vision, curation, professionalism and commentary has been exemplary, we have loved every post. Today we are featuring his final two days, days 13 and 14 from this series, to read the others, please follow this link.

Throughout the fortnight of Gerry Coe’s Instagram takeover he has included work from, Kurt Norlin, Bonobo Stone, Marco P, Charlie Beef, Vicki Cooper, Vadim Demjianov, Ilana Akoundi, David Scott Leibowitz, Joseph Cyr, Peter Wilkin, Rita Colantonio, Susan Tuttle, Nan Patienza, Eliza Badoiu, Gianluca Ricoveri, John Nieto, Lorenka Campos, Axel Berg…, Mieke Elzinga, Alexis Rotella, Tricia Dewey, all great and established mobile artists.

Thank you so much Gerry Coe for a fabulous fourteen days, what an exhilarating journey it has been to see #theappwhisperer through your eyes, its been so good, thank you!

Please continue to tag all your images with #theappwhisperer as we have a new curator starting later today…

Please take a look at our @TheAppWhisperer Instagram account to follow all the goings on and please also tag your images with #TheAppWhisperer, so that they can be found and potentially featured.

He writes:…

Mobile Photography – Instagram TAKEOVER with @coeiphoneart – Gerry Coe from Belfast, UK – Days 6 – 9

13/03/201813/03/2018 by Joanne Carter

We are so excited with our latest Instagram TAKEOVER this time with @coeiphoneart – Gerry Coe. Coe is an Internationally acclaimed Portrait Photographer, working in Northern Ireland known for both his Award winning Portraiture and his Fine Art images.

He is a Fellow of each of the four main photographic organisations including the British Institute of Professional Photographers, Master Photographers Association, Royal Photographic Society and the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers and he has just recently received his Second Fellowship from the BIPP for his much acclaimed iPhone Photography images. This is the first time anyone, anywhere has achieved a Fellowship in iPhone or Mobile Photography. He is the first Double Fellow of the BIPP in Ireland and one of a very small group of double Fellows worldwide. Recently he was also awarded an honourary fellowship from the BIPP, this is a rare award only 20 of these have been awarded in the 140 year history of the BIPP.

Please take a look at our @TheAppWhisperer Instagram account to follow all the goings on and please also tag your images with #TheAppWhisperer, so that they can be found and potentially featured.

He writes:

“@coeiphoneart Day 6, today’s choice is an image by @odinvadim – Vadim Demjianov. This snow scene looks like a Victorian postcard. It has been beautifully captured with a lovely soft light coming across the scene. To my eye there has been very little manipulation of the image apart I suspect the warm glow. I think this shows you don’t need lots of extra textures to have a great photograph. Well done.

@coeiphoneart Day7 street portraits are always popular and this one by @ilanaakoundi – Ilana Akoundi intrigues me I love the play of shadows on the wall. The added bonus is the person walking across the scene who has his hand up as if shading his eyes.

@coeiphoneart Day 8. Fascinating image by @dleibo – David Scott Leibowitz, so many stories and questions. The woman in the white dress helping her child climb around the wall, the guitar is it hers or does it belong to someone else we can’t see. The photographer is she taking a picture of them, or of the building. The woman sitting at the top of the steps, is she counting her money or sorting out things in her bag? And the man walking into the scene. A superb image.

@coeiphoneart Day 9 A superb monochrome image by @allophile_ – Joseph Cyr, I love the textures and strong lighting. The footprints coming across the picture breaking up the pattern in the sand where they meet up with the shadow which brings your eye back to the tufts of grass, then you start the journey again. A simple image but full of drama”.

Mobile Photography – Instagram TAKEOVER with @gilliannb – Gillian Brodie – Day 4

24/02/2018 by Joanne Carter

We are so excited with our latest Instagram TAKEOVER this time with @gilliannb – Gillian Brodie. She is a highly respected and talented artist and has been granted full access to our Instagram account and she is doing a magnificent job. We are very proud of her! Please take a look at her Instagram feed to see what an incredible artist she is.

On day 4 @gilliannb highlighted this image by talented mobile photographer @mitrydate and she writes “Hi everyone, @gilliannb here for @theappwhisperer posting my second pic for today. I have chosen this gorgeously dreamy & mysterious street shot from @mitrydate ✨ I have been following her since my early days here on IG and can highly recommend a visit to her feed which is full of the most wonderful street photography & urban visions”.

Later on day 4 @gilliannb highlighted this image by our talented co-editor (with @lee_atwell) of our StreetWise Column @ilanaakoundi – Ilana Akoundi and she writes “Hello from Saturday morning in Australia ! @gilliannb here for @theappwhisperer. As a lover of BnW, of street photography, and of strong graphic elements in photos – I couldn’t go past this great street shot by @ilanaakoundi. She has captured a moment on the street that beautifully encapsulates all of those things, also making great use of the strong light & resulting shadows ✨“.

Please take a look at our @TheAppWhisperer Instagram account to follow all the goings on and please also tag your images with #TheAppWhisperer, so that they can be found and potentially featured.

Mobile Photography StreetWise March 2017 Showcase

14/04/201711/04/2017 by Ilana Buch-Akoundi and Lee Atwell

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” Dorothea Lange

Hello everyone!

Thank you all for submitting your images to our StreetWise Flickr group during the month of March. All we can say is “wow!” What incredible images submitted to our group from around the world. It is such an honor to share the showcases with you.

Once again, our difficult challenge was to choose such few images for the showcase from all those that were submitted and we want you to know we appreciate each and every post.

As a reminder, we choose images for the showcase that are in keeping with our group’s intention and guidelines focusing on the key aspects of street photography composition, timing, juxtaposition, catching the decisive moment rather than relying too much on apping or images that are more art oriented or painterly.

If you are a mobile street photographer, please consider joining our growing community.

To those new to our street photography community, welcome – it is great to have you join us!

Flickr Group (for weekly showcase submissions) https://www.flickr.com/groups/2750883@N25/pool/

Facebook Group (for information sharing/discussions) StreetWise – Mobile Street Photography – an TheAppWhisperer.com Group

A special thank you to Joanne.

We hope you feel inspired by this showcase and our wonderful group. Until next time, happy shooting, everyone!

Ilana and Lee

Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured in this showcase including: OverherdScene, Albion Harrison Nash, Laurence Bouchard, Connie Gardner Rosenthal, Pier Luigi Dodi, Paula Betlem, Nick Kenrick, Patrick Ryan, Michaela Meerkatz, Valeria Cammereri, Rob Pearson-Wright, Isabel Afonso, Melissa David, Isabelle Wolter, Magda DJM, Myrna, Louise Whiting, Satoshi, Marc Zetterblom, Dina Alfasi, Julia Nathanson, Valentin Dragomir, Vanessa Vox, Luison, Tuba, Tim Bingham, David DeNagel, Alon Goldsmith, Joshua Sarinana, Nicolas Luke.

Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase 5 February 2017

05/02/201705/02/2017 by Joanne Carter

This weeks mobile photography and art Flickr Group Showcase presents to us at a considered reflective pace, an indulgent, unclouded and undoubtly magnificent version of a profoundly uncompromised human life. This is a rich, fascinating and passionate vision. Enjoy!

If you would like your work to be considered for entry into our weekly Mobile Photography and Art flickr group, please submit it to our dedicated group, here. If you would like to view our previous Flickr Group Showcases (please go here).

Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured this week:

Linda Hollier, Alegremartin, Amo iPhoneography, Ilana Akoundi, kseven, Sheldon Serkin, Liliana Schwitter, Beatrice Chapillon, jillian2 – Jill Lian, Hotel Midnight – Deborah McMillion, David DeNagel, Kristie Benoit, borisbschulz2009, Ralk Mauyog, Elaine, Jun Yamaguchi, Hanni K, Tzvetan Ganev, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Ade Santora, Tricia Dewey, dinalfs, Alex Paton, Siegfried Ferlin, Karen Axelrad, Vanessa Vox, Giancarlo Beltrame, p.a. hamel, Poetic Medium, Lorenka Campos, Lindy Ginn, Francesco x, Brett Chenoweth, Roger Guetta, Ile Mont, Tomaso Belloni, Gianluca Ricoveri, Francesco Sambati, Isabel Afonso, Marianne Rieter, street level, Marguerite Khoury, Gillian Brodie, Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Christine o’Sobczak, Giulia Baita, before.1st.ight – Jane Schultz, Dominique Torrent, Candice Rialto, Tracey Grumbach, Bob Weil.

Music this week is by Will Thomas entitled ‘Recline’.

Mobile Photography – StreetWise, January 2017 – Ninth Challenge – ‘Animals in the Street’

30/01/201730/01/2017 by Ilana Buch-Akoundi and Lee Atwell

“Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions, they pass no criticism.” George Eliot

Hello Everyone!

Welcome to our Ninth StreetWise Challenge Showcase ‘Animals in the Street.’ We are thrilled to share it with you!

Thank you so much for participating and sharing your wonderful photographs. Lee and I were delighted by all the beautiful submissions to this fun challenge. It was particularly fascinating for us to see how animals interact with us and in the streets in neighbourhoods from around the world.

As always, Lee and I hope you enjoy the showcase as much as we enjoyed putting it together.

A reminder — we choose images for the showcase that are in keeping with our group intention and guidelines “We believe that it is important to focus on the key aspects of street photography composition, timing, juxtaposition, catching the decisive moment rather than relying on too much apping. We therefore feel that apping should be kept to a minimum cropping, tweaking exposure, colour, adding a grain or texture is okay, but we would like to see you steer away from overly app’ed images that are more art oriented or painterly.”

If you are a mobile street photographer, please consider joining our growing community.

To those new to our street photography community, welcome – it is great to have you join us!

Flickr Group (for weekly showcase submissions) https://www.flickr.com/groups/2750883@N25/pool/

Facebook Group (for information sharing/discussions) StreetWise – Mobile Street Photography – an TheAppWhisperer.com Group

A special thank you to Joanne.

Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured in this showcase including: Isabelle Wolter, Adelino Marques, magda djm, Basak Aytek, Ryan Vaarsi, Connie Gardiner Rosenthal, Marizio Zanetti, Gergely Hando, Luison, Paula Betlem, Karen Axelrad, Melissa David, Kate Zari Roberts, Nick Kenrick, dinalfs, Christine Mignon, drccoliver2, Vanessa Vox, Micheldev1, Julia Nathanson, Liliana Schwitter, Katiebrightcolors, Ocean Morisset, Daniel Vondav

Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Eighth Challenge – ‘People Working in the Street’

14/11/201613/11/2016 by Ilana Buch-Akoundi and Lee Atwell

Hello Everyone!

The theme of our next challenge is ‘People Working in the Street’

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see” Henry Thoreau.

This is a popular theme and for good reason — people are at work everywhere on the street.

In our daily lives, we see folks in uniforms working for local municipalities on the street, such as policemen and women, traffic officers, school crossing guards, street cleaners to name just a few. Others sell things on the street from clothing and accessories to fruits and veggies, books, or anything at all. People work in ways that can be seen from the street, in a storefront window or a newspaper stand. Nowadays, the food truck or cart is ubiquitous and one can find people at work selling all sorts of delicious things to eat the ice cream truck is a favorite! Still, others are musicians, singers, or some kind of performers working their magic on the street.

The streets are filled with people who, in one form or another, are doing a job. We thought it would be interesting to capture and incorporate people who work in the street into photographs for this challenge, and the options are wonderful and endless!

We are very excited to view your submissions each month and look forward to curating your photographs for this next ‘People working in the Street’ showcase.

A recap of our rules and procedure for entry:

For the challenge please only post FOUR photographs to our Flickr challenge site on the link below, and in your title description include ‘People Working in the Street’.

https://www.flickr.com/groups/2811204@N24/pool/

Please posts photos for our monthly showcase here:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/2750883@N25/pool/

We look forward to your photos.

Mobile Photography – Streets Ahead – Fiftieth Edition – Women’s Street Photography Collective

06/09/201606/09/2016 by Cara Gallardo Weil and Gina Costa

Welcome to our fiftieth edition of “StreetsAhead,” a weekly column dedicated to women mobile street photographers. Each week we review and curate work that was submitted to our Flickr Group. In addition to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we also highlight a few images that caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition, and subject matter.If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy information and conducting discussions (what, when, where, why and how) about Women Photographers/Artists and Street Photography, in general.

So, if you are a woman street photographer, please join our growing community… I’m sure that you will agree that we are a very enthusiastic and supportive group of women!!

• Flickr Group (for weekly showcase submissions)

• Facebook Group (for information sharing/discussions)

“I am completely enthralled by the atmosphere in this collection of hand-picked images as well as the articulate and expressive commentary by Gina Costa. Cara Gallardo Weil has put together such an intense video, almost unknowingly reinvigorating mobile street photography as we know it! We owe so much to our wonderful editors, thank you both so much” (text: Joanne Carter).

Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured this week including:

Dina Alfasi, Basak Aytek, Eliza Badoiu, Rosanna Cappiello, Donna Donato, Louise Whiting, Gillian Brodie, Gina Costa, Isabel Afonso, Laura Peischl, Ile Mont, Laetitia HC, Kate Zari Roberts, Julia Longiotti, Liz Traynor, Julia Nathanson, Susan Rennie, Dominique Torrent, Shayna Schulman, Ilana Akoundi, Jo Sullivan, Karen Axelrad, Michaela Meerkatz, Kathy Clay, Natali Prosvetova, Magda DJM, Goha Radziszewka, Lee Atwell, Connie Gardener Rosenthal, Trish Korous, Allyson Marie and Paula Betlem.

Mobile Photography – Streets Ahead – Forty Eighth Edition – Women’s Street Photography Collective

17/03/201617/03/2016 by Cara Gallardo Weil and Gina Costa

Welcome to the forty eighth edition of “Streets Ahead,” a weekly column dedicated to women mobile street photographers. Each week we review and curate work that was submitted to our Flickr Group. In addition to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we also highlight a few images that caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition, and subject matter.If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy information and conducting discussions (what, when, where, why and how) about Women Photographers/Artists and Street Photography, in general.

So, if you are a woman street photographer, please join our growing community… I’m sure that you will agree that we are a very enthusiastic and supportive group of women!!

• Flickr Group (for weekly showcase submissions)

• Facebook Group (for information sharing/discussions)

Gina Costa has once again commented on this weeks hand-picked images, it’s such a delight to read her expressive and articulate thoughts and Cara Gallardo Weil has put together a phenomenal video showcase, it will leave you breathless – thank you both so much.

Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured this week including: Michelle Robinson, Laetitia HC, Liz Traynor, Ilana Akoundi, Armineh Hovanesian, Connie Gardner Rosenthal, Karen Axelrad, Jessy Menchaca, Gina Costa, Ile Mont, Vanessa Vox, Carlein van der Beek, Lee Atwell, Susan Rennie, Donna Donato, Pat Brown, Julia Nathanson, Jormain Cady, Montse Abad and Louise Whiting.